Seattle, this city and myself have a little bit of history. I’ve vacationed in my way young past, and been up here twice else for Job interviews (was declined on one, turned down the other). But still after being away from a “big” heavily metro city for a while, this place seems well…different… Anyways my …
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Feb 11
Sprint and the Tragedy of the Commons?
Since my first Cell Phone I’ve been a Sprint customer (now about 12 years). They give me a great phone and piles of bandwidth and I give them money, it’s been a mutually beneficial agreement Lately I’ve been watching the developments in the cell phone industry, Verizon, AT&T have all gone to limited plans. T-Mobile …
Feb 10
The Decision to Give
You see a panhandler on the street begging for cash, what provokes you to give or not? I keep telling myself I’ll never give to a panhandler again, but yet sometimes something about my inner chemistry provokes me to fork over a few dollars yet again despite myself. I’ve tried to analyze for my sake, …
Feb 04
Interesting Kroger Corporate Search Bot
So I’m perusing my Blog statistics when I spot an interesting visitor today going by the (host) name webcrawler02.kroger.com. Now all are more than welcome but I’d be curious as to just who this guy is after a search on the Internet revealed little about him other than some more curious forum posters. My theory …
Feb 04
The State of the Economy As I See It
So it seems that the economy is improving now. The prognosticators that be have marked the unemployment rate lower, my inbox is swarming even more with recruiter emails and my wife is busier than ever on tax returns this year. But yet…another friend of mine just had his job outsourced and one couple who babysit …
Jan 28
What happened to the Wall Street Journal?
So up until recently I was a subscriber to the Wall Street Journal, I remember 7 years ago thinking that the online journal was a great price at $104/year. However today at $207/year I just can’t have the same thought. So I recently canceled. Reasons? 1) Value for the dollar, I just don’t read that …
Jan 22
ACE Project in Loveland
The biggest news in our little town of Loveland is probably the ACE Project. The Reporter Herald does a pretty awesome job of keeping up with this project. It’s been 1.5 years since I first heard of this project and the old HP Site is still mostly vacant, but I’m sure any day now… On …
Jan 21
So Software Testers Need to Be Coders Huh? Why Software Testing is Important.
Time to admit it developers, many of us are lousy at Software Testing, me included… Many of us might be familiar with the “Agile” methodology, amongst which advocates that testers write code and developers test code. In my experience I’ve seen many a tester write some code, often in the endeavor of fixing a problem. …
Jan 20
My First Codeplex Project Ever
http://spdperformancerules.codeplex.com/ Basically a performance analyzer for SharePoint using SPD Health Rules in SharePoint 2010. May it not be my last project
Jan 14
Cowboy Jim, Handyman Extraordinaire
Let me introduce you all to a friend of mine, Cowboy Jim. Since we moved into my new home in Loveland he’s done all the handiwork around the place that I just can’t do (I’m really more a Tim Taylor than a Bob Vila, give me a hammer and I’m dangerous). For example, today I …
